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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  itself. A popular way is the six o'clock position, which means positioning ... ask me how I was doing. I said I was fine, just a little tired. He ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months. Temporary as it had been, my room was a home and a safehouse. With a west ... filled the high ceilings with a gentle in-betweenness, half out and half in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  catch a break. I'm getting a little tired of the "studying harder than I ... thinking "I'm stupid. MIT made a mistake in accepting me." But I often overlook that I'm not a unique case. Nearly everyone else at MIT feels hosed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  changed by WGS.229—not many classes can do that for a student! Another ... summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  started to keep track. I adapted a Google Sheets Monthly Budget template and ... create is a self check-in of: would I be willing to put in the work or do I ... lifestyle, I am doing all of that. If I need a total of $1,250 / month, a job

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... every once in a while, doing random puzzles on puzz.link, and picking up ... quarantine. having a meal plan sure is convenient, but i do miss how, last year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  , small bags of stuff that do a lot of work to keep us alive. We are ... , and the salt. If you’re doing this alone, it’ll be half a cup of ... ’re doing this with a group you’ll want to fill the blender and scale up the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  because he's doing it as a job - and his enthusiasm really came across ... 's recommended if you're planning on doing a bio/chem related major, for reasons ... . You can either do the UROP for pay, for volunteer, or for credit. A lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority ... school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  Language is a funny thing. It's so natural and as kids we pick it ... place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... speak to each other in German. But there are foreigners here too, a decent

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  line, it's a step function. And sometimes all you can do is just hang on ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  idea what you want to do at MIT and (2) is a manageable schedule with ... , and TAing. After doing well in a class or if you're already qualified ... couple extracurriculars, and a job. That's a lot. How do you balance all of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  's office." "And what do you mean by a mayor's office?" I asked her ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla, Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  . THAT DEFINITELY DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. I’M TOTALLY DOING THAT. So ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made with a 2-liter seltzer water bottle, some foam core board, a hot glue gun

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... ,” [annotation note="see also: “so false.” can be used as a filler/form of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  because I didn't do enough work last term... I think I was more nervous ... abroad, needed to do more schoolwork, etc. Good thing I was wrong ... a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  , 8 HASS subjects seems a lot. Do most take about 1 a term? That would ... MIT students (and they do exist) who take 8+ classes a term, so as to ... The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  else you can do with a microplane? Buy fresh parmesan, like in real ... sticks that could no longer squeeze a lemon. Please, do not separate us, I ... ’t do any of that so it’s a moot point. Still a good tool to have. Rubber

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  bad"]Beginner 3rd: SmartRec; 2nd: Do no harm; 1st: Nothole, with a ... means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone ... ="HackMIT's annual high school learnathon and hackathon, where we spend a day teaching

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025